September 2017

Happy Translation Day!

September 30, 2017 admin 0

It’s Translation Day today. The international day of celebrating books in translation. It is celebrated on the feast day of St. Jerome (pictured at right), considered the patron saint of translators. According to Wikipedia: The celebrations have been promoted by FIT (the International Federation of Translators) ever since it was set up in 1953. In 1991 FIT launched the idea of an officially recognised International Translation Day to show solidarity of the worldwide translation community […]

This Just In… Six of One: Blackwing
by DeAnna C. Zankich

September 30, 2017 admin 0

Kathryn Broch needs a vacation. Between fronting a rock band, managing a complicated long-distance relationship, and casting spirits out of her younger brother, Kellan, she’s got a lot on her plate. She longs for quiet time at their cabin in Mount Iolite where the love of her life, and Kellan’s best friend, anticipates their return. But Kathryn’s path is never so easy. Kellan is a spirit vessel who believes he’s meant to help all wayward […]

Authors on Snacks: R.M. Greenaway

September 28, 2017 admin 0

Does creativity have a taste? And, if it does, is it sweet or savory? January Magazine’s “Authors on Snacks” is a personal peek at what some of our most beloved authors nibble on while pushing forward on their latest work. This time out we chat with author, R.M. Greenaway. Her first novel, Cold Girl, won the 2014 Arthur Ellis Unhanged award, was published in March 2016 and went on to be shortlisted as best first […]

Hugh Hefner, Icon of the Sexual Revolution,
Dead at 91

September 27, 2017 admin 0

Publisher, editor, businessman and icon Hugh Hefner has died. He was 91 years old. Hefner was best known as the longtime editor of Playboy magazine, which he founded in 1953. From Wikipedia: While he was working as a copywriter for Esquire, Hefner left in January 1952 after being denied a $5 raise. In 1953, he took out a mortgage, generating a bank loan of $600, and raised $8,000 from 45 investors, including $1,000 from his […]

Art & Culture: Botanical Sketchbooks
by Helen and William Bynum

September 27, 2017 admin 0

Botanical artists are a breed apart. They itch to record that which exists in the natural world. Botanical Sketchbooks (Princeton Architectural Press) by Helen and William Bynum captures both the art and the sentiment that have driven it through the ages quite perfectly: If the ephemeral beauty of plants, the sheen of a petal, a detail of dusty pollen or tilt of a leaf lent themselves to sketching, so too did the enduring and […]

Crime Fiction: The Story Behind Lone Wolf

September 27, 2017 J. Kingston Pierce 0

(Editor’s note: The husband-and-wife team of Daniela De Gregorio and Michael G. Jacob, who write under the byline “Michael Gregorio,” first came to reader attention with the publication of their first novel, Critique of Criminal Reason (2006), an outstanding historical mystery featuring early 19th-century Prussian magistrate-cum-sleuth Hanno Stiffeniis. They went on to compose three other Hanno Stiffeniis novels, before introducing a quite different lead detective in Cry Wolf (2015), a modern-day Mafia thriller set in […]

Crime Fiction: The Late Show by Michael Connelly

September 22, 2017 J. Kingston Pierce 0

The Late Show (Little, Brown) brings the debut of an exciting new lead character for Los Angeles author Michael Connelly. Known around the world for his gripping series of novels featuring now-retired LAPD detective Harry Bosch, as well as his successful series starring “Lincoln Lawyer” Mickey Haller, Connelly has embarked on yet another new series—this one strongly based, he tells the reader, on an actual detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. In the jaded […]

Authors on Snacks: Steff Penney

September 20, 2017 admin 0

Does creativity have a taste? And, if it does, is it salty or sweet? January Magazine’s “Authors on Snacks” is not meant to be a judgment. Rather, it’s a personal peek at what some of our most beloved authors nibble on while pushing forward on their latest work. This time out we chat with filmmaker and writer Steff Penney. Penney’s debut novel, The Tenderness of Wolves, won the 2006 Costa Book Awards and The Book-of-the-Month […]

New Alice McDermott Book Heads to Hollywood

September 19, 2017 admin 0

The Ninth Hour, a novel by National Book Award-winning author Alice McDermott (A Bigamist’s Daughter, These Short, Dark Days), has been acquired by Scott Rudin Productions. According to Deadline Hollywood, “Rudin and Eli Bush will produce the film. The deal was made by Geoffrey Sanford of The Sanford Ehrlich Company and Sarah Burnes of The Gernert Company.” The novel is a multi-generational story steeped in the Irish Catholic faith and set in the early 20th […]

Twenty-Five-Year-Old Dan Simmons Novel
Will Be Film